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CVE-2017-0379
Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a…
High7.5EPSS 3.5%
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- debian
Description
Libgcrypt before 1.8.1 does not properly consider Curve25519 side-channel attacks, which makes it easier for attackers to discover a secret key, related to cipher/ecc.c and mpi/ec.c.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- local side-channel attack
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
libgcrypt
- affected libgcrypt
References (11)
- 100503 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1041294 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3959 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00221.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=da780c8183cccc8f533c8ace8211ac2cb2bdee7b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/806 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-0379 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180726-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/873383 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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